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Winnipeg Free Press health-related stories from Winnipeg and around the world.en-gbFri, 9 Dec 2016 12:18:11 CSTNew streaming service TellMe TV offers content for visually impairedhttp://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/new-streaming-service-tellme-tv-offers-content-for-visually-impaired-405650976.html
"They kiss; we tell."
That's the cheeky motto behind TellMe TV, a new streaming service aimed at providing Described Video on-demand to visually impaired Canadians.
The service, which costs $6.99 a month, launched in November and is currently available through a web browser.
It's the first of...Fri, 9 Dec 2016 11:55:08 CSTPremiers push for resolution in squabble with Ottawa over health transfershttp://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/premiers-push-for-resolution-in-squabble-with-ottawa-over-health-transfers-405647586.html
OTTAWA - Climate change is Justin Trudeau's stated priority, but his provincial counterparts are pushing to put health care funding near the top of the agenda for today's first ministers meeting in Ottawa.
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he wants more time spent discussing the health careFri, 9 Dec 2016 11:28:04 CSTCanada's food guide could use some changeshttp://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/canadas-food-guide-could-use-some-changes-405567726.html
Health Canada recently announced it would revise the nation&rsquo;s food guide &mdash; a move that has generated some discussion about potential changes.
The guide &mdash; officially known as Eating Well with Canada&rsquo;s Food Guide &mdash; has long served as an important source of information.Fri, 9 Dec 2016 07:42:19 CSTSaskatchewan's Wall, B.C.'s Clark get premiers gathering off to fractious start http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/first-ministers-gather-in-ottawa-to-discuss-climate-health-care-405578136.html
OTTAWA - Loud but predictable opposition to a federal carbon tax by Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall may be overshadowed by a bigger threat to a pan-Canadian climate deal from British Columbia and Premier Christy Clark.
Clark says issues of carbon price equivalency between direct carbon taxation —Fri, 9 Dec 2016 11:53:07 CSTCalgary mother who treated sick son holistically is 'morally innocent:' defencehttp://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/final-arguments-in-trial-for-calgary-mom-who-treated-son-with-holistic-remedies--405578126.html
CALGARY - The lawyer for a Calgary woman who treated her son with holistic remedies before he died says she was a good mother and is "morally innocent."
Tamara Lovett is accused of failing to provide the necessaries of life and with criminal negligence causing death.
Her seven-year-old son,Fri, 9 Dec 2016 11:13:08 CSTSaskatoon Health Region warns open-heart surgery patients of infection riskhttp://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/saskatoon-health-region-warns-open-heart-surgery-patients-of-infection-risk-405554586.html
SASKATOON - The Saskatoon Health Region has joined others across the country in warning patients who have had open-heart surgery that they are at potential risk for infection.
The warning is aimed at patients who had the surgery between 2011 and 2016.
Alberta Health Services and the WinnipegThu, 8 Dec 2016 22:34:16 CSTB.C. opens sites similar to supervised-injection sites without federal exemptionhttp://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/six-new-overdose-prevention-sites-in-bc-to-be-similar-to-supervised-injection-405498156.html
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is opening new locations where people can inject illicit drugs while monitored by trained staff — but the province says it isn't skirting the law on supervised-injection sites.
The province announced Thursday that its opioid overdose crisis has spurred it toFri, 9 Dec 2016 08:05:08 CSTSmallpox may be more modern disease, not ancient, as long thought: researchershttp://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/smallpox-may-be-more-modern-disease-not-ancient-as-long-thought-researchers-405497406.html
TORONTO - It's long been thought that smallpox is an ancient infectious disease that began decimating human populations thousands of years ago, but new genetic research is casting doubt on that belief, suggesting the pathogen may have been a much more modern scourge.
Smallpox, caused by theThu, 8 Dec 2016 15:15:12 CSTBill would see doctors' licences revoked if they grope a patienthttp://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/bill-would-see-doctors-licences-revoked-if-they-grope-a-patient-405494896.html
TORONTO - Ontario has introduced legislation that would see doctors' licences revoked if they grope a patient.
Currently a doctor's licence is revoked if they are found to have sexually abused a patient through intercourse, and several other forms of sexual contact, but some sexual touching wasThu, 8 Dec 2016 14:32:04 CSTMedical clinic collects too much personal info through surveillance: B.C. audithttp://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/medical-clinic-collects-too-much-personal-info-through-surveillance-bc-audit-405493166.html
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's privacy office is calling on a medical clinic to immediately stop collecting video and audio of patients, employees and contractors because it is not legally authorized to do so.
Acting privacy commissioner Drew McArthur said an audit of the clinic in the LowerThu, 8 Dec 2016 17:23:04 CST